The developer wants to provide more modern facilities and storage capacity for businesses, reports Grace Howarth, Local Democracy Reporter

How the new Martinbridge Industrial Estate is expected to look from Lincoln Road (credit UMC Architects)

A Southbury industrial estate looks set to be redeveloped to provide “intensified” use by businesses.

Developer Goodman Real Estate Ltd describes the existing units at Martinbridge Industrial Estate in Lincoln Road as “outdated” and approaching the end of their “useful life”, with most now being vacant.

Planning documents state the site in its “current form” isn’t capable of meeting the requirements of “modern 21st Century businesses”.

The estate, which was developed in the 1970s, is over four-and-a-half hectares in size and consists mainly of industrial commercial and retail buildings constructed of metal cladding.

The proposal focuses on delivering modernised industrial and storage space, as well as office space and welfare facilities such as showers, lockers and changing rooms.

Access from Lincoln Road will be delivered as well as operational service yards for each unit and building, staff vehicle parking, including electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure and cycle storage.

The site has been earmarked in the council’s new Local Plan for “industrial and logistics-led redevelopment” and is located within strategic industrial land (Sil).

Sil sites, in combination with locally significant industrial sites (LSIS), are the “main reservoirs of industrial land within London” and ensure there is a sufficient supply of premises in different parts of the capital to meet current and future industrial demands.

Planning documents state the work is “strongly supported” by Enfield Council officers who provided feedback on the design, advising the developer to keep it in line with the local area.

The Greater London Authority also “engaged positively” with the proposals as did the Metropolitan Police and Transport for London, planning documents state.

More information on the scheme can be found via Enfield Council’s planning portal, using reference number 25/02093/OUT.

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